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Kurt Coleman has flown to Australia and Peter Grant is expected to be fit to play in the next game, but the Stormers have confirmed that they are looking at options from outside of the squad as they look to have flyhalf well covered as the business end of the Vodacom Super Rugby arrives. Continue reading
South Africa’s World Cup-winning coach Jake White has been appointed as the coach of Australia’s ACT Brumbies Super Rugby team.
The Bulls may have been given the week off, but the team’s brains trust has still been mulling over a few important issues in the wake of their defeat to the Highlanders. Continue reading
The Bulls will not only be fighting to keep their title as the best team in Super Rugby, they will also be fighting to keep their players. Continue reading
Springbok wing Bjorn Basson will attend Monday’s hearing in Cape Town with a bitter taste in his mouth. Continue reading
Springboks Gurthrö Steenkamp, Pierre Spies and Jaco Pretorius are early casualties as the Vodacom Bulls started their preparations for the 2011 Super Rugby season, but there was good news for other test stars like Wynand Olivier, Fourie du Preez and Victor Matfield. Continue reading
Vodacom Blue Bulls legend John Mametsa has decided to call it a day on his playing career.
Once again the All Blacks are the pacesetters in world rugby. A fantastic 93 per cent winning record in 2010 is light years ahead of the next in the rankings and provides plenty of confidence for 2011. Continue reading
Pretoria – Vodacom Blue Bulls No 8, Pierre Spies, has been ruled out of Saturday’s Absa Currie Cup rugby match against Griquas in Kimberley. Continue reading
The heads of four members of the Springbok management team may roll on Friday. Continue reading
Racing-Metro’s South African back Francois Steyn says he’s prepared not to take part in next year’s World Cup because of the lack of respect shown to him and his club. Continue reading
The Blue Bulls are approaching their remaining Currie Cup league fixtures as quarterfinals and “must-win” games. Continue reading
Xerox Lions coach John Mitchell came out in support of Springbok assistant coach Dick Muir attributing the recent successes of his team to Muir’s planning. Continue reading
Former Springbok coach Jake White believes the warning lights are flickering for Bok rugby. Continue reading
Super 15 franchise the Force, has released coach John Mitchell from the final year of his contract and the New Zealander will join the Golden Lions on a three-year contract. Continue reading
The possibility of further misery or a likely last chance in 2010 to get his Test-level act back together?
The Wallabies have called on one of South Africa’s best known goalkickers to help improve their technique before the Pretoria Test on Saturday. Continue reading
The Vodacom Blue Bulls welcomes back Springbok midfielder, Wynand Olivier, to their side for Friday’s Absa Currie Cup clash against the Pumas in Nelspruit. Continue reading
While the 2010 Tri-Nations could be decided this weekend, the three top-ranked teams in world rugby are scheduled to meet again in 2011 as they seek to claim southern hemisphere supremacy and quite possibly crucial momentum in the final run-up to Rugby World Cup 2011. Continue reading
Ok, so on request of grootblousmile here is a thread where we ask you to submit your funniest jokes as a part of Rugby-Talk’s 1st B-Day. Continue reading
It may be tempting to some to surmise that the big Absa Currie Cup meeting between Western Province and the Blue Bulls at Newlands on Saturday amounts to a virtual re-run of the Vodacom Super 14 encounter there earlier in the year. Continue reading
Johannesburg – All SANZAR disciplinary questions are now firmly behind the Springbok team and management, national teams manager Andy Marinos announced. Continue reading
Western Province must be considered favourites for Saturday’s Currie Cup match against the Blue Bulls at Newlands. Continue reading
The Blue Bulls always believe that a glass is half full rather than half empty, and that every dark cloud has a silver lining. Continue reading
Naas Olivier scored 21 points to lead the GWK Griquas to a 41-27 (half-time 24-10) win over the Platinum Leopards in their Absa Currie Cup match at Olen Park in Potchefstroom on Friday. Continue reading
We had on Rugby-Talk people asking for our game plan to change. Yes totally. Play the running game drop the kicking game plan. Some came back later to say that our history was never this free for all running game. Read what Rob Houwing said in his article on News24.
Griquas coach Dawie Theron has made two changes to the side which beat the Lions last weekend for Friday night’s Absa Currie Cup match against the Platinum Leopards in Potchefstroom. Continue reading
South Africa’s third loss in as many weeks in the Tri-Nations means they now sit only 0.70 points above Australia in second place in the latest IRB world rankings. Continue reading
The Springboks are taking their complaints to an official level with the South African union asking SANZAR to look into what they clearly feel is a bias against Peter de Villiers’ side by the judicial system. Continue reading
Ruan Pienaar and Morné Steyn will finally play together again as the Springboks’ halfback pairing in what probably feels like an eternity to two very good friends. Continue reading
The Springbok match 22 to face Australia in a Vodacom Tri-Nations Test at Suncorp Stadium in Brisbane on Saturday shows nine changes to the one that went down 17-31 against New Zealand in Wellington last week. Continue reading
Winger Joe Rokocoko and scrumhalf Jimmy Cowan were ruled out Thursday of New Zealand’s team for Saturday’s second Tri-Nations Test against South Africa because of injury. Continue reading
Os du Randt was interviewed and this is what he had to say on the Bakkies Botha story… Continue reading
Auckland – Dan Carter doesn’t normally give too much away in the leadup to a Test, so it was interesting to hear the All Blacks playmaker practically paint a target on the back of his Springbok opposite this week.
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Springbok coach Peter de Villiers believes the management of Fourie du Preez and Andries Bekker by the Bulls and Stormers respectively has contributed to the situation where both are currently unavailable because of injury. Continue reading